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  • 1flood — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. deluge, inundation, torrent, freshet, cloudburst, spate; superabundance. See sufficiency, water, assemblage. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A Great flow of water] Syn. deluge, surge, tide, high tide, freshet …

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  • 2flood — n 1 *flow, stream, current, tide, flux Analogous words: *excess, superfluity, surplus: incursion, *invasion 2 Flood, deluge, inundation, torrent, spate, cataract are comparable when they mean a great or overwhelming flow of or as if of water.… …

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  • 3Tidal bore — Aegir redirects here. For the mythological figure, see Ægir. For the moon of Saturn, see Aegir (moon). The tidal bore in Upper Cook Inlet, Alaska A tidal bore (or simply bore in context, or also aegir, eagre, or eygre) is a tidal phenomenon in… …

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  • 4flood — Synonyms and related words: Niagara, abundance, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, acres, addition, advance, affluence, aggrandizement, alluvion, alluvium, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplification, amplitude,… …

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  • 5Flood — A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land, a deluge.MSN Encarta Dictionary. [http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861612277 Flood.] Retrieved on 2006 12 28.] In the sense of… …

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  • 6Tidal wave — Tide Tide, n. [AS. t[=i]d time; akin to OS. & OFries. t[=i]d, D. tijd, G. zeit, OHG. z[=i]t, Icel. t[=i]?, Sw. & Dan. tid, and probably to Skr. aditi unlimited, endless, where a is a negative prefix. [root]58. Cf. {Tidings}, {Tidy}, {Till}, prep …

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  • 7Great Wakering — infobox UK place country = England latitude= 51.5516 longitude= 0.8165 official name= Great Wakering population = shire district= Rochford shire county = Essex region= East of England constituency westminster= Southend East constituency… …

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  • 8Flood control in the Netherlands — Without dikes, this part of the Netherlands would be flooded …

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  • 9Great Yarmouth — For other places named Yarmouth, see Yarmouth (disambiguation). Coordinates: 52°36′22″N 1°43′44″E / 52.606°N 1.729°E / 52.606; 1.729 …

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  • 10Great Recycling and Northern Development Canal — The Great Recycling and Northern Development (GRAND) Canal of North America or GCNA is a water management proposal designed by Newfoundland engineer Thomas Kierans to alleviate North American freshwater shortage problems (see Water politics). The …

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